A local council candidate from Stuttgart is said to have employed the Thai police. The Stuttgart AfD is behaving more problematically at home.
Stuttgart - Niels Foitzik, who came fourth on the Stuttgart AfD list for the local council elections on June 9th, apparently triggered two police operations in the south of Thailand. As the
Bild
newspaper reported on Monday (April 15), Foitzik is said to have thrown food at other guests in a restaurant. Accordingly, the vacationing politician was released with a fine of around 25 euros. The next day something similar is said to have happened, but this time Foitzik was said to have been tied to a stretcher by the Thai police. The newspaper reported this, citing the police, almost two months before the Baden-Württemberg local elections.
AfD man Foitzik: No drugs involved in detention in Thailand
In videos of the incident, Foitzik appeared confused. The politician wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he was in a “health emergency.” The
Bild
newspaper previously reported that Thai police believed Foitzik had consumed too much cannabis. Fotzik said he didn't take drugs and apparently offered to prove this with blood evidence. The cause of his exceptional health condition was “not yet entirely clear,” the politician wrote. Blood poisoning and a “concussion after impact” were diagnosed.
The 32-year-old Foitzik is a member of the AfD district executive committee in Stuttgart. Like the Baden-Württemberg state association, the Stuttgart AfD is divided by a power struggle between federal spokeswoman Alice Weidel and Bundestag member and Stuttgart co-leader Dirk Spaniel. The
Stuttgarter Zeitung
reported in January that the promising places on the local election list had been filled by candidates from Spaniel's environment. Parallel to the EU, local elections will take place in Baden-Württemberg on June 9th.
Foitzik and Stuttgart AfD's top candidate Mayer are raising the mood against Seebrücke
Niels Foitzik and the first on the list, Michael Mayer, are both promoting a campaign for Stuttgart to leave the “Seebrücke” alliance. According to Foitzik on his Facebook page, this is the “pivot point” for taking action against “asylum propaganda” and “unstoppable migration policy” in local politics. “We have to bleed,” Foitzik said, referring to immigrants. The second on the Stuttgart AfD list, Steffen Degler, Young Alternative state executive, is even more radical: In the JA state association's podcast, he repeatedly speaks to actors from the right-wing fringe of the AfD.
Second on the Stuttgart AfD list, Steffen Degler, used anti-Semitic images
There he allowed AfD-NRW board member Matthias Helferich to claim unchallenged that “replacement migration” was taking place in Germany. This ties in with the anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy narrative of the “Great Population Swap.” The story claims that anti-Semitic “elites” wanted to exchange white European populations for other ethnic groups.
This conspiracy ideology drove the right-wing terrorists in Utøya, Christchurch and Halle. It belongs to the ideological canon of the right-wing extremist “Identitarian Movement”. In 2022, Degler himself found himself in the annual report of the Baden-Württemberg Office for the Protection of the Constitution after he spoke of “locusts of high finance” that were “bleeding the country dry little by little”. Three classic anti-Semitic language images.